Letter-box.



Fig. 2 arear view or' the same,

ARTHUR S. GODDARD, E W'ATERBURY,

CONNECTICUT, Assrenon To WATERBURY* MFG. C0., OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT,A. CORPORATION.

LETTER-Box.

Application filed December To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHURTS. GODDARD, a citizen of the United States,residing at lVaterbury., in the county of New Havn'iand State ofConnecticut, havefinvented new and useful Improvement ifa 'Letter-Boxes;and I do hereby declare the ifollowing, when taken in connection withthe accompanying drawings and the characters of reference markedthereon, to be afull, clear, and exact description of the same, andwhich said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent,in

Figure Al a front View of a letter box constructed in1 accordance .withmy invention. a portion of the case broken av: y. -l*`ig". 3 an insideview of the-door. Fig. 4 a sectional view on the line -b of Fig. 2 on anenlarged scale. Fig. 5 a sectional view on the line c-d of Fig. 3 on anenlarged scale. Fig. 6 an end view of one of the hollow rivets,detached.' Fig. 'i' a side view of one of the hollow rivets shown asattached to the rear face of the plate or door This invention relates toan improvement in letter boxes, and particularly to letter boxes whichare employed in otlices, apart- 'ment houses and other places, and whichconsist of a front plate provided with a slot opening into the box, adoor for the box and a push button for electric bell or a mouth for aspeaking tube. These front plates and the doors are usually formed fromcompara:

which are secured to the plateor to the -door are secured by rivetswhich extend through the face of the plate and door, these rivets show,and in a sense, mar the appearance of.

the plate and door.

The object or' this invention is. to, secure the metal parts of a letterbox'fin'such a way that rivets will not appear throughthe face-plate ordoor; and the invention consists in the construction hereinafterdescribed and particularly recited in the claim.

The front plate 2 may Specification of Letters Patent.

metal, and if theA pafrtfs be oi' any approved rammed sept. 7, 1915.'

26, 1914. Serial No. 879,091.

design. As herein shown it is formed with a transverseslot through whichletters ma be inserted into the box, a door 4' by which face ot' theplate at'the desired points hollow f A rivets T having flanges 8 bywhich the hollow rivets may be hrmly soldered or otherwise i 50 the boxis closed, and at the bottom a pushsecured to the rear of the faceplate. The

casing is provided with ears 9 having perforations 10 adapting the caseto set over the hollow rivets which are then upsetso as to irmly attachthe casing to the rear4 of, the face plate. Similar rivets 1l areemployed for attaching hinge plates 12 to vthen-:ar of the face plate bywhich the door 4 is secured in position; and attached t the -inner faceof the door are similar rivets 13, 14, by which theifock 15 andname-plate slide 16 are secured in place.A By this construction theseveral parts of a complete letter -box are connected together withoutrivets which'ex tend through the face plate or door, and these parts canbe secured-after the face of the plate and door have been put mari-ingthe surface finish of these parts. A. ,I claimt` shfeet metal letter boxplate rately Iformed hollow rivets having flanges which are secured toits rear face and .projecting rearward therefrom, and parts of a letterbox secured to the plate by upsetting the outer ends of the said rivets.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presenceof two subscribing witnesses. Y

Witnesses J. S. NEAGL, K. M. BROWN.

having sepafinished, with

